18 and 19, Old Elvet is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1962. Houses.

18 and 19, Old Elvet

WRENN ID
mired-vestry-pine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 October 1962
Type
Houses
Address
18 and 19, Old Elvet, City of Durham
OS grid reference
NZ 278 423
Coordinates
54.77487, -1.56897
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 18 and 19 Old Elvet are two houses built in the late 18th century, with significant alterations made in the 19th century. They feature a stone plinth and are constructed of mottled, light red brick in English garden wall bond. The houses have a Welsh slate roof with brick copings and chimneys. They stand three storeys high and consist of one and two bays. The entrances have 6-panel doors with overlights, although the overlight of No. 19 is blocked, and the top door panels are glazed. These doors are set in architraves beneath later pedimented hoods, positioned to the left of No. 18 and off-centre on No. 19. The windows are tripartite sash windows with glazing bars, with the top and bottom left windows renewed in the early 19th century, although the lower window has lost its bars. There is a later 19th-century oriel window at the first floor left, and the houses feature three-brick floor bands, ridge and rear chimneys, and tumbled-in brickwork on the gable ends.

Inside, No. 18 is reported to have an open-string staircase with a moulded handrail and two turned balusters per tread, square newels with knob finials, and a continuous curved tread end. No. 19 has an open-string staircase with a moulded ramped handrail on a diagonal lattice balustrade.

Local climate

18 and 19, Old Elvet receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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